(02-12-2016 02:52 PM)Shai Hulud Wrote: Surprisingly well, thanks! Chair was still harping on "how is the cheating situation going"...because at the end of my first semester, a year ago, I asked her what our policies as a university were on students cheating, because I'd caught 2 out of 250 between my 4 classes, cheating. She has brought it up 2-3 times per semester since. Even after I redesigned my syllabus to stop just short of burning the test in front of them if caught. (But there is the "I will take the test and you will receive a zero".)

One place that I taught at sent that business to the Honour Council. They investigated and, if warranted, awarded a grade of XF: Failure Due To Academic Dishonesty. Very not something you want on your transcript. I had one student who had all the right answers to the other copy of the midterm. I think lighting it on fire would have been his preference judging by the sickly green hue that he turned when I told him.

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Well Aliza if you want to move to Cheeseland and complain... (we'd welcome you, seriously! You'd die of cold, being from the South though; prof from Miami was talking last night about how cold he is, and we've only had snow once so far, and it's not even below 0F yet.)

(02-12-2016 05:32 PM)Paleophyte Wrote:

(02-12-2016 02:52 PM)Shai Hulud Wrote: Surprisingly well, thanks! Chair was still harping on "how is the cheating situation going"...because at the end of my first semester, a year ago, I asked her what our policies as a university were on students cheating, because I'd caught 2 out of 250 between my 4 classes, cheating. She has brought it up 2-3 times per semester since. Even after I redesigned my syllabus to stop just short of burning the test in front of them if caught. (But there is the "I will take the test and you will receive a zero".)

One place that I taught at sent that business to the Honour Council. They investigated and, if warranted, awarded a grade of XF: Failure Due To Academic Dishonesty. Very not something you want on your transcript. I had one student who had all the right answers to the other copy of the midterm. I think lighting it on fire would have been his preference judging by the sickly green hue that he turned when I told him.

Oh dear...heh. Well played on your part using multiple copies, and that sounds very bad for the transcript (but he dug his own hole by cheating). I imagine no grad school would want to take someone with that on there...

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